EBBWFERRIC

EBBWFERRIC was a Free one-day mini-festival by artist Stefhan Caddick, which combined installation art, death metal, film, metalwork performance and the archives of Ebbw Vale Steelworks.

Taking place at the historic General Offices, the only remaining steelworks building in Ebbw Vale, EBBWFERRIC was a celebration of metal in all its manifestations – molten, heavy, historic, hot strip, electrolytic.

EBBWFERRIC included:

The Ebbw Vale Works MuseumThe Ebbw Vale Works Museum – an opportunity to visit the museum and talk to the ex-steelworkers who run it

Ferrous Blooms, a hot metal performance by Andy Griffiths, Head of Sculpture, Carmarthen School of Art

Specific Gravity – a two-screen film by Stefhan Caddick which combines 100 year old footage of the steelworks with data from NASA’s mapping of the lunar surface. With an original soundtrack by Harrison Banfield

Parking: free parking is available in two car parks adjacent to the General Offices (one by the station, the other opposite the General Offices). If both of these are full, there is a free multi-storey car park 100m before the Leisure Centre (you’ll need to drive towards the town centre, and take the first left at the roundabout onto Lime Avenue).